Now that Powell has been so publicly humiliated how can he stay?

[chelaque liberal]

The world has been shown the total disrespect the Bush Administration has for him. He can't possibly function with credibility as SOS. How can he do anything else but resign?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/60minutes/main612067.shtml

"But, it turns out, two days before the president told Powell, Cheney and Rumsfeld had already briefed Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador.

”Saturday, Jan. 11, with the president's permission, Cheney and Rumsfeld call Bandar to Cheney's West Wing office, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Myers, is there with a top-secret map of the war plan. And it says, ‘Top secret. No foreign.’ No foreign means no foreigners are supposed to see this,” says Woodward.

“They describe in detail the war plan for Bandar. And so Bandar, who's skeptical because he knows in the first Gulf War we didn't get Saddam out, so he says to Cheney and Rumsfeld, ‘So Saddam this time is gonna be out, period?’ And Cheney - who has said nothing - says the following: ‘Prince Bandar, once we start, Saddam is toast.’"

[NewJeffCT]

1. Maybe that is why Bush...

Maybe, that is why Bush, in his press conference, slipped up and said "Secretary of State Rumsfeld"???

[Catt03]

2. Probably won't be asked to the prom in 2004

but he will survive. I think that this expose just underlines that Powell is not a leader, he follows.

I don't think for a minute that Powell was absolutely against going to war. He just might be a little more rational than the rest.

[vi5]

3. The same way other reasonable, sane repubs stay....

$ome thing$ $peak much louder than personal integrity and belief$ if you know what I'm $aying.

[rocktivity]

4. They don't dare fire him.

He might, uh, write a book. Besides, his humiliation actually started when he wasn't given Rummy's job.

:headbang:
rocknation

[emulatorloo]

5. I am guessing that he is a major "unnamed" source for this one - n/t